Kirk Ruebotham (www.abebooks.com/home/kirk61/) is a mailorder only dealer, who sells out-of-print and used horror/SF/fantasy/crime and related non-fiction at very good prices, with regular catalogues. Write to: 16 Beaconsfield Road, Runcorn, Cheshire WA7 4BX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1928–560540 (10:00 am-8:00 pm). E-mail: [email protected]
The Talking Dead is run by Bob and Julie Wardzinski and offers reasonably priced paperbacks, rare pulps and hardcovers, with catalogues issued occasionally. They accept wants lists and are also the exclusive supplier of back issues of Interzone. Credit cards accepted. Contact them at: 12 Rosamund Avenue, Merley, Wimborne, Dorset BH21 1TE, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1202–849212 (9:00 am-9:00 pm). E-mail: [email protected]
Ygor’s Books specializes in out of print science fiction, fantasy and horror titles, including British, signed, speciality press and limited editions. They also buy books, letters and original art in these fields. E-mail: [email protected]
ONLINE
All Things Horror (www.allthingshorror.co.uk) is a genre interview site run by Johnny Mains that mainly focuses on authors, editors, artists and movie stars of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. It also caters to reviews of both films and books, and features a short fiction section that is open to submissions.
Fantastic Fiction (www.fantasticfiction.co.uk) features more than 2,000 best-selling author biographies with all their latest books, covers and descriptions.
Pan Book of Horror Stories (www.panbookofhorrorstories.co.uk) is a tribute site dedicated to the best-known horror anthology series ever published in the UK. Comprehensive listings of all stories and authors can be found here, along with rare contractual and promotional material that has been gathered together for the first time, giving a unique insight into the series’ publishing history.
Hellnotes (www.hellnotes.com) is now in its fourteenth year of publication, offering news and reviews of novels, collections, magazines, anthologies, non-fiction works, and chapbooks. Materials for review should be sent to editor and publisher David B. Silva, Hellnotes, 5135 Chapel View Court, North Las Vegas, NV 89031, USA. E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]
SF Site (www.sfsite.com) has been posted twice each month since 1997. Presently, it publishes around thirty to fifty reviews of SF, fantasy and horror from mass-market publishers and some small press. They also maintain link pages for Author and Fan Tribute Sites and other facets including pages for Interviews, Fiction, Science Fact, Bookstores, Small Press, Publishers, E-zines and Magazines, Artists, Audio, Art Galleries, Newsgroups and Writers’ Resources. Periodically, they add features such as author and publisher reading lists.
Vault of Evil (www.vaultofevil.wordpress.com) is a site dedicated to celebrating the best in British horror with special emphasis on UK anthologies. There is also a lively forum devoted to many different themes at www.vaultofevil.proboards.com
The Mammoth Book of the Best of the Best New Horror
Edited by Stephen Jones
For over 20 years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been recognized as the world’s foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. This celebratory collection from multi-award-winning editor Stephen Jones looks back on two decades of superb writing to bring readers the ultimate horror fiction anthology.
March 2010
978–1-84901–304–8
£9.99
www.constablerobinson.com
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Horror in 2008
Front-Page McGuffin and the Greatest Story Never Told PETER CROWTHER
It Runs Beneath the Surface SIMON STRANTZAS
These Things We Have Always Known LYNDA E. RUCKER
Feminine Endings NEIL GAIMAN
Through the Cracks GARY McMAHON
Falling Off the World TIM LEBBON
The Old Traditions Are Best PAUL FINCH
The Long Way RAMSEY CAMPBELL
The Pile MICHAEL BISHOP
Under Fog TANITH LEE
Arkangel CHRISTOPHER FOWLER
The Camping Wainwrights IAN R. MacLEOD
A Donkey at the Mysteries REGGIE OLIVER
The Oram County Whoosit STEVE DUFFY
The New York Times at Special Bargain Rates STEPHEN KING
Our Man in the Sudan SARAH PINBOROUGH
“ Destination Nihil ” by Edmund Bertrand MARK SAMUELS
The Overseer ALBERT E. COWDREY
The Beginnings of Sorrow PINCKNEY BENEDICT
The Place of Waiting BRIAN LUMLEY
2:00 pm: The Real Estate Agent Arrives STEVE RASNIC TEM
Necrology: 2008 STEPHEN JONES & KIM NEWMAN
Useful Addresses
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